New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-17
MUSICAL NOTES.
GERMAN OPERA NEXT SEASON.

opera In German at the Metropolitan Opera House
will be read with interest throughout the coun
try than the one that during the last two weeks
of the season, Wagner's "Walkure," siesfried and
"Gotterdammerung," that is to say the whole Nipe-
lung tragedy except the prologue, "Rheingold," VIII
be given In order twice. To enable this to be done
the times Of performance will be changed TO MONDAY
Tuesday Thursday and Friday evenings and satur
day afternoon "Trlsian und Isolde will be asso-
ciated with the Nlbelung plays in the first week ana
Fidelioo In the second 1t Is safe to say that hun
dreds Of music-lovers from even distant cities OF the
country will como to attend these performances'
az scores did the last "Trstan" representation Tho
two separate dramas of the tetralogy which have not
yet heard here viii not walt for these consecn
two performances, however. "Siegfied VIII DC
the second novelty Of the season and VIII DC Droheht
forward on November IG; Die Gotterdammerung
Is down for production early In January.
II Is Characteristic Of the system with which the
affairs of the Metropolitan Opera are administered
that though the will not begin until three ana
n half months from tho repertory IS aIreahy
made out and the parts have been assigned to the
artists scattered all over Europe and America who
are expected to sing them. 1t Is Managers stan
toms PURPOSE TO give eighteen operas In sixteen weeks
The order in which the novelties will be prCuuced
| Is as follows: November 4, "Trompcter Won sakfnh-
GEM: November IG, scgfted'; December D, fer-
dinand Cortez": December 90, "Euryantho' Janu-
D
of last season there not single substitution on
account Of sickness or any other cause and II Il safe
to assume that the dsappolntmentso the coming sea
son will be only those that tho wsest management
| can not guard against n good reputation pays
| In every one of the western cities Vslted Dy the
| National Opera Company curses may yet DO heato
| becau.es Of promises given and not fulfilled. The
! subscriptions for tho Metropolitan Opera on the
contrary, show that in this case promises are not
| even asked The prospectus has not been Issued,
hut the subscriptions already much larger IMAM
they were at tho beginning of the season last year.
Those who fear that the public Will DO overdosed
with Wagner can find comfort In the announcement
that the first novelty OF next season VIII pe Nessi0i
| aTrompeter Won sakklngen." This opera marks as
| wide a remove from the Wagnerian drama as Inc
| LADY Of Iyonsr do, from King Lear 1t Is by
| porsentlmenta play, full Of things which appear
with peculiar potency to the German heart, ana aso
Of the dongs OF dashng trumpeter, who Is the god
| Of the ldolairy Of sentimental German school girls
The male chorus of Metropolitan will have to be
siren s,hen.d to do Vt Justice and II Herr Robinson
acts the heros part with half the grace and saantry
~ the baritone who has made onehalf Of female Ger
| many maudlin, the fair ones Of our German popui%
| tlon would do we'll to look to their hearts. Inc
chances arc that Robinson will blow bis trumpet 80
that tho Duke will say, Let him blow again. let MN
blow again"
| II IS a popular deiuslon that wagners music Is
noisy Rossni was also decrici too noisy Thus far
| the only noisy music Of Wagner that has been heard
| at the Metropolitan was In laenkl,' work written
French aud Italian models Inc Nh neat
season will make ~ In order TO tell The story Oi now
while Icore1 was en}S cyp snus near The opera
house one day found bearing note sisned VIII. a
The name ., min , conterte prcsentnsn be re-
moved farther from tho opera house during tue III"
Of Spontinis opera
| Apropos Of Berlin stories, good one IS related As
coming either from tho Prussian Minister won fu't-
hammer or his son. shortly after Herr Sedl arrived
In Berlin last spring he made an official call on Count
Won Hoehborg, the Royal Theatrical Intondant' sedi
WAS I'm full, evening dress, Is usual with Germans,
| who do all their eercmonous acts In tho morning
| and In evening dress: but ho vore whito hech'io
| with red ends OF the kind TO which no seems much
attached After the interview, II is said tho Intend
! on, sad Tn Won lIittkammer a man who wears
red edged necktie Will do for conductor of tho
| Roy al Prussian Opera
| Az a recent mootng OF tho Music Teachers Ma
tionaI Association at Indianapolis, original compost
lions by the following American musicians wcro per
| formed:
T. Van der stucken, Otto FloersheT, F. Q. Quicken,
Henry Holden Huss, s. N. Pennhed, Rafael Josehy
| and william IL Sherwood of NowYork; Dudley Buck
| and Harry Rowe Shelley, OF Brooklyn Arthur foote,
George T.. Whiting, q. W. Chadwick. f. b. Perry and
| Ferdinand Dewey. Of Boston; W. W. Glehrs', OF
| Philadelphia; Otto Singer, Of Cincinnati; John ID.
| u. II.
| land; T. s. Mattoon of Columbus; W. IL. Dayas ana
| Arthur Bird now In Berlin. a pretty fair list Of
| names and as those who heard 1t testify, the
| music was full Of promise for tho future American
school Of composition An interesting fact In con-
| nectlon with tho American movement, which the
Association Is doing much to promote Is that OF the
men who had representation all but tloersheiin,
Josefy Singer and Quicken native Americans
| Two amateurs were also given a hearing Sebas-
tan schIesinger, Of New-York and l. l. Scafe, OF
Boston. , .,, - ,,.,,
in the special reports tclegraphed to The TRIBUNE
from indianapolis, but something remains 10 De said
to repair omission due to the failure OF the tele
graph company to do Its duty AT the second 9rc %sr
stucken, tho American compositions were "C1neer,
Prelude and Fugue" by Otto floeIsheim; bail ~,
James Russell Lowell, entitled ~The Rose" by
Symphonic y G fantasia for oTchosra by f. x Arsns
a cantata for male voices and orchestra king
Dedication Ode Tor solos, chorus and orchestra BY
@. w. Chadwick, of Boston. There was considerable
Snt not one that did not richly repay performance
Mr.. Foersheims fugue commanded respect for
there were moments when the Inspiration seemed
to give out In the fugue, and when the composer
In which he working, the result as totally was
giaddening The prelude Is unqualltedly beautiful
Unions Concerts in Now, York last February It is
capital piece Of writing with evenly sustained inter
| est and a pretty development OF feeling MIR. Arenas
fantasia mixed with Its pronounced beauties the prov
aicnt faults Of the young writers OF America-want
OF seIfcriucism and Inability to stop writing long
as method of spinning the music ont presented ITSELF
Its most noticeable trait astndy was s fine use OF
| poyphony The work was composed for the meeting
and accepted for performance by an examining com
! mittee OF which Dudley Buck was a member In his
| cantata Mr.. Whiting made vigorous and successful
| use Of Luthcrs choral" Elm Feste Burg" Mr.. Chad
| wcks ode composed two years ago for the dcd-
| cation Of the Holly Street Church In Boston,
| Of which no Is organst. 1t shows, too, the coca
sonal want OF spontaneity which such origin sug
gess as likely to exist But like all Its companion
pieces 1t gave proof of the sound learning high ideals
and industry of tho younger school Ut American com
p0sers.
The latest departures for Europe among our mus-
cal folk were those Of Nils Agnes Huntington and her